My Adobe Creative Cloud Quick Q&A
Last week I was at Adobe’s Creative Cloud launch event out in San Francisco, and after getting a lot more details on what the Creative Cloud is all about, I have I’ve gone from cautiously curious to really excited. I think this is going to open a lot of new opportunities and put some amazing
7 Photoshop Tutorial and Training Sites That Will Motivate You
Photoshop Roadmap Photoshop Roadmap is a huge directory of tutorials and downloads that let you do a vareity of things in Photoshop. The site is set up to allow you to explore and find some interesting things that will add the WOW back into your photography. Don’t forget to check out their blog. Tutorial 9...
Stunning Cloud Fly Thru – creating motion from still photos
Tweet Last year, Jeff Farmer from XNcreative.com sent us an amazing tutorial we called “Incredible “3D” motion from Canon Rebel T2i/550D stills” and he’s just sent us another stills-to-motion tutorial showing how they’ve created a video fly thru of clouds that were shot on a Canon Rebel T2i/550D. It looks simple, but I’m sure there’s...
"Hot Red”
"Hot Red”©David A. Ziser I've been playing around with Adobe's latest version of CS6 and have to say I'm mightily impressed. Yesterday, while cruising my files for an image to bring in the CS6 and I came across the image you see in today's post. It...
Photoshop vs Lightroom vs Freeware
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“Should I use Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom” Photography enthusiasts will consider this question at least once in their lives. A tough question, one that will differ from person to person based on a variety of factors such as:
Skill level
How they want to edit the photos
The number of photos to be edited
Preference
Both Photoshop and...
It’s Official: Adobe launches Creative Suite 6 and The New Creative Cloud
Today’s the big announce day at Adobe, and I’m out here in San Francisco for the CS6 launch event, and everybody here is really psyched. Of course, for me it’s all about Photoshop CS6, but obviously for a lot of folks that’s just one part of a big Creative Suite package that was made much
Is True SOOC Possible
One of the great things about photography is there are few absolutes. Even an image that’s overexposed or underexposed can be interesting and compelling to some people. What really makes a good photograph is whether the photographer thinks it is. It doesn’t make any difference if I like it or if the next person likes...
Thrifty Couples Opting for Photoshopped Wedding Photos in China
A strange bit of news coming out of China: couples are opting to have their wedding photos faked using Photoshop due to rising photography costs. Rising cost of a wedding photo-shoot is forcing some Chinese couples to get their wedding albums prepared with the help of morphing offered by various online photography-related agencies. With the...
Discuss: Is true SOOC possible?
Here’s a question for you, my friends. Do you think it is possible to “get it right” straight out of the camera, with no post-production necessary? Or do you think it’s impossible to obtain the correct exposure, white balance, and color balance without post-production? I recently watched this video, in which Mark Wallace explains why...
Quick Hit Monday – New Canon Flash News; Another New Camera??; Inspirational Photography; and More!
Good Morning Everybody, Hey gang, I'm stoked this morning - we are kicking off my 5-day Digital Master Class/Workshop. The batteries are charged - mine included, workbooks are printed, models are ready to go, we've selected all the locatio...
Adobe Wants to Have Photoshop-style Blending Modes Built Into HTML
The Web Platform Team over at Adobe is currently working on bringing Photoshop-style blending modes to HTML, which would allow fancier websites and easier transitions from the company’s design tools to the web. If they succeed in publishing the spec through W3C and having it implemented in WebKit, web designers will soon be able to...
How to Create a Mind-Bending Camera-less Mirror Self-Portrait
Snapping a self-portrait of oneself in a mirror is something every photographer has probably done before, but have you ever created one in which there isn’t a camera in the shot? The images look impossible, but they’re not too difficult to create using some careful planning and clever Photoshop trickery. Basically, all you need to...
